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...this, young (35) Dr. Progoff, now practicing "depth psychology" in Manhattan, attempts a bold task: reconciling the often violently discordant views of modern psychology's major prophets-Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung and Otto Rank. Says Progoff: "When we make allowances for the areas where they overlap, repeat each other, or say the same thing in different words, and when we balance out the personal facts that led to undue emphasis in one direction or another, there remains a fundamental con-isistency in the development of [their] thought and practice." As Progoff sees it, Freud took...
...Adler came closer to this cosmic ex perience. He called it "social feeling," and through it "gained a profound and intimate connection with life." This, suggests Progoff, sprang from his extravert nature, just as his theory about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that...
Switzerland's Carl Jung came still closer to man's spiritual core. Adler had broadened the picture to include social instincts; Jung deepened it to include religious instincts. From Jung's complex and often obscure theories Progoff distills an essence: that mankind has a collective "Self," which can be fully realized only through a religious outlook, regardless of creed. This abstract Self, with many features of the ancient soul, is utterly foreign to the sexual debris that Freud found at the bottom of the unconscious well...
...nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed, which Adler ignored, and at which Jung only broadly hinted-achieved outstanding importance for Rank. It became something that each individual had to attain for him self on the plane of "spiritual realities." To Rank, man's core was the "will to immortality," that is, "man's inherent need...
...Ethical Fellowship is a non-denominational religious organization founded by Felix Adler in 1876 and based on the ethics of all religions...